Every word Arne Slot said on Liverpool vs PSG, Rio Ngumoha and Florian Wirtz

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We have also shown a different face, I am completely aware of that, but many of our games that we have played were very good as well, especially in big games."Not all of them because not all of us have been together for one-and-a-half years, but for the ones that have been with me for the past one-and-a-half years, in the 49 home games we have played, 36 times we were able to score two goals or more. But as we all know, the Premier League and the Champions League opponents that we had over here were also very strong and are very strong."So, yes, there is a belief that we can do special things tomorrow but we need to be very, very, very special tomorrow to achieve that because we are playing against the champions of Europe, so that makes the task more complicated but not impossible."Arne Slot was criticized for his tactics in Liverpool's first leg defeat to PSG(Image: Getty Images)Will the approach be different from the first leg?"I don't know if a lot has been said about that because I had to focus on Fulham and now Paris Saint-Germain again, but usually in football I know how it works that if you change the system the focus is completely on the system, and not about what is actually happening."People find it probably very hard to believe what I am going to say now, but the approach is not so different for tomorrow than it was in Paris – for the people who know me, I never put out a team and tell them to go to a low block for 90 minutes."Actually, if you really looked at the game back you could see that we have pressed them high on multiple, multiple, multiple occasions.

And if we have it more then it's nice to have attacking threat on the pitch and that's what we will have tomorrow."Can Ngumoha handle this type of game?"Yeah, I think he can. But then it's also a good thing to have so many experienced players around you, which he has in the dressing room.On Florian Wirtz“What we did after Jurgen [Klopp] left, 18 months ago, and we always knew that it would be a transition, because we knew it would be the end of a cycle and we always knew we would have to recoup money, which we did by selling 10, 11 or 12 players I think,” Slot said as he launched a defense of the club’s transfer strategy."And we have spent that money on young, very talented players that get their times to build on the same cycle as the last seven or eight years has been with the players who have already left or will do at the end of the season."So that is why we brought in Florian, Alex [Isak], Hugo [Ekitike], Milos [Kerkez], Jeremie [Frimpong], young, talented players to create a new cycle and therefore we need a lot of players to leave to find the money to buy them.Florian Wirtz has been criticized for some of his recent performances(Image: MI News/NurPhoto)"We didn’t add Florian Wirtz to the team that played PSG.

And we bought him and others - young players - to create a new successful cycle, and the sooner that happens, the better it is."I am convinced that either tomorrow or next season or the season after soon he (Wirtz) will, like Milos, Alex, Jeremie, like [Jeremy] Jacquet - another 19-year-old we are bringing in this summer - will have special moments here at Anfield and tomorrow is the first opportunity for him and the others, but we didn’t bring him in for this single, particular game."On his side's mindset"Of course, we know we need an exceptional performance to go through to the next round, but that's completely normal if you face the champions of Europe and you're 2-0 down. Then to make people a bit more positive than you were trying just a second ago, we've also been able to score more than two goals once in a while."Let's first focus on the job at hand and that is just start aggressive, making sure we can get back into the tie and the best way of doing so is, of course, scoring the first goal, which we again know because otherwise you're going tell me, 'Yeah, but last season they scored the first goal over here and at Arsenal they scored their first goal...' So yes, I know that they will try to score the first goal, but that's definitely what we are going to try as well."On the Anfield effect"Just as important as our performance, so I think we have to be much, much, much better than we were last week.